People come up to me, you need to be running a democratic party.

Have you heard my message?

Have you heard my critique of the corporate duopoly?

Have you heard the taboo issues that the democratic party

will not touch at all?

Do you know what it means to look at where the American empire is now

and to fear dysfunctionality of the two-party system

as 60% of its fellow citizens are struggling to put food on table every month

and making still and now familiar with expansionism?

All right, well, I'm talking today to a man who needs no introduction.

You know him as a professor, a writer, a scholar, public intellectual.

Now he's adding to the list, 2024 presidential candidate, Dr. Cornell West.

Welcome back to Beth Faith.

Well, it's always a blessing to be in conversation with you.

What they made the force for truth and good you are in these very bleak times.

Well, it's so kind of you to say that, Dr. West,

I think that the news of your announcement was met with overwhelming optimism,

and positivity from not just people on the left,

but across the political spectrum.

You really distinguished yourself as someone who's able to talk to people

from all walks of life of all political backgrounds,

of all class backgrounds with empathy and grace and good humor and love and compassion

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